News archive on the topic "illegal arms trade"

Repeat offender from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

The arms trade in Ukraine is an extremely attractive business. Thus, in the Poltava region, a former police officer appeared in court, who in 2014 had already been convicted of a number of crimes related to the illegal trafficking and sale of weapons. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This time, a former law enforcement officer got burned selling a pistol and an AKM-74 assault rifle with ammunition...

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Ukrainian serviceman started production of homemade firearms for sale

The SBU detained a local “Kulibin” in Kherson, a serviceman who converted starting pistols into combat pistols and sold them. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte This was reported by the local resource “Bukva”. It is noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier was caught red-handed, and an entire arsenal of weapons was found in his house. “During a search at the residence of the attacker, special service operatives...

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Illegal trade in arms and ammunition in Ukraine has reached the scale of a social catastrophe

The proliferation of ammunition and weapons in Ukraine has acquired the proportions of a social catastrophe. One can understand the large concentration of illegal weapons in the territories adjacent to the so-called “ATO” zone. However, more and more illegal arsenals are being discovered in the western regions and in the center of the country. Why people arm themselves is anyone’s guess. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or...

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New national idea: Ukraine is a global weapons supermarket

Foreign media continue to discuss the illegal weapons market in Ukraine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Journalists, for example, managed to interview the Kyiv arms dealer Andrey. His story is typical. At first, he fought as a volunteer in the Donbass as part of the Right Sector. I was on the front line. After the end of the intense phase of hostilities, neither he nor the weapons, which no one controlled, turned out to be...

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A policeman from Odessa sold grenade launchers from Donbass and got away with three years in prison

Evidence of the existence of heavy small arms traffic through Odessa to the Caucasus and the Mediterranean countries can be seen in the detention last July of a platoon commander of a patrol battalion in Odessa after selling a grenade launcher and ammunition for twenty thousand hryvnia. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte While on a business trip in the ATO zone near Mariupol, an enterprising Odessa resident bought six thousand...

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Western media: Ukrainian weapons are going through illegal channels to Syria and the Caucasus

The cessation of intensive military operations in Donbass has turned Eastern Ukraine into a Mecca for illegal arms dealers, the Western press writes. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “out of forgetfulness” or as a souvenir take home ammunition, which then explodes in apartments. Where will this deadly flow be directed? Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte SBU officers recently detained a Frenchman who was trying to cross the Polish border...

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